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Huge projects set to transform town
Two major building projects in Corby are taking shape.
Workmen have demolished the former Corby Community College in Oakley Road and are preparing the site for the new Tresham College campus.
And hoardings have been removed at the Corby Cube site to reveal a public piazza taking shape, leading to the entrance to the building.
Builders moved on to the Tresham site at the end of November to start taking down the former school. And already they have flattened the buildings and cleared most of the rubble.
The first building work will start as soon as next week when Corby MP Phil Hope cuts the first sod.
The campus is costing 35m and is expected to open in 2011.
It will be built on the Corby Walk – the mile-long link between the
Parkland Gateway, town centre and the train station.
The new campus will provide the community with greater access to skills and education, offering vocational courses such as building, mechanics, hairdressing and beauty therapy.
It was hoped the campus would also house a new university for the town but the plans are on hold after a funding bid failed.
Sammy Rawlins, 17, from Oakley Road, Corby, lives just a few yards from the new building. She said: "We've been watching them take the old school down and we can't believe how quickly they've done it. The site had been attracting a few youngsters who were hanging around before they started to demolish the school.
"It's lovely to be able to look beyond where the building used to be and see all the trees and the green.
"I think it's just what Corby needs. We're getting the new Kingswood School too and the Business Academy seems to be getting on well. It's almost enough to make you want to go back to school."
The Corby Cube on the Parkland Gateway development has been partly hidden behind hoardings for the past year while it has been constructed. Now workers have removed some of the main fences to reveal
the first part of a public area.
Sandwich shop worker Michael McNamee, 22, from the Oakley Vale estate, said: "It just looks amazing
"It's quite hard to believe that this is in Corby when you think about what the town looked like five years ago.
"What's nice is the Cube has lots of space and air around it. That's quite rare in town centres these days."
The 30m Cube is due for completion later this year and will feature a library, theatre, council chamber and a roof terrace.
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